Culver City Forward public-institution leadership network
Documented crossover among Culver City Forward governance and major Culver City public or civic institutions. Thomas Small combined elected City service with compensated Culver City Forward executive leadership and later continued as a director; Michael Hackman served in senior Culver City Forward governance; Kelly Kent combined CCUSD elected-board service with a recurring Culver City Forward Secretary role; Yolanda Gorman combined City strategic-plan facilitation with recurring Culver City Forward board leadership; and Justinian Jampol combined Wende Museum leadership and a City-facing Wende development role with documented Culver City Forward board service.
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direct recurring nonprofit governance and documented financial relationship through Culver City Forward
direct elected-institution / nonprofit-governance crossover
direct professional / nonprofit-governance crossover
direct nonprofit-leadership / City project / nonprofit-governance crossover
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Shared leadership and professional overlap is not evidence of coordinated decision-making among the linked institutions.
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https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/834433775 02 · culvercityforward.org https://culvercityforward.org/ 03 · culvercityforward.org https://culvercityforward.org/leadership/ 04 · content.govdelivery.com https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CACULVER/bulletins/21ef427 05 · culvercity.gov https://www.culvercity.gov/Active-Projects/10858-10860-Culver-Blvd 06 · wendemuseum.org https://wendemuseum.org/contact-us/ Related Records
Culver City Forward Fiscal 2024 Form 990
IRS Form 990 filing for Culver City Forward, filed November 17, 2025. IRS-derived data reports $6,992 revenue, $5,619 expenses, $1,070 assets, $10,245 liabilities and negative $9,1…
Culver City Forward Incorporation
Culver City Forward Officer Filing
California Secretary of State filing records preserved in the Greenberg archive identify Michael D. Hackman as Chief Executive Officer and Brent Iloulian as Secretary for Culver Ci…
Culver City Forward Officer Transition
Culver City Forward Officer Filing
California corporate filing records preserved in the Greenberg archive identify Thomas Aujero Small as Chief Executive Officer and Kelly Kent as Secretary for Culver City Forward i…
Greenberg Public Records Act Request Regarding Small and Hackman Discussions
Les Greenberg submitted a California Public Records Act request seeking records related to discussions concerning Thomas Small, Michael Hackman/Hackman Capital Partners, and potent…
Greenberg PRA Request Regarding Small Hackman CCF Discussions
Thomas Small / Hackman / Culver City Forward Ethics Complaint Chain
A documented correspondence chain concerning a complaint by Les Greenberg regarding Thomas Small, Michael Hackman/Hackman Capital Partners, Culver City Forward, and City ethics pol…
VX2022 — Climate Change Impacts & Opportunities: Urban Planning Paradigm
VerdeXchange's VX2022 urban-planning panel placed Rick Cole and Thomas Aujero Small on the same panel. Gail Goldberg, former Executive Director of ULI Los Angeles, moderated; Vince…
ULI Los Angeles FY2024 Advisory Board
ULI Los Angeles records list Thomas Small of Culver City Forward and Rick Cole of the City of Los Angeles as At-Large members of the ULI Los Angeles Advisory Board for July 2023 th…
VerdeXchange VX2026
VerdeXchange VX2026 listed Thomas Aujero Small, CEO of Culver City Forward and former Culver City mayor, and Rick Cole, Pasadena councilmember, among its speakers. On June 2, Cole …
verdexchange-digital-twin-2023
VerdeXchange program records identify Thomas Aujero Small as moderator of a panel titled 'How Planning with Digital Twins Will Change Cities & The World.' Panelists included repres…
Culver City Forward 2019 Form 990
Culver City Forward
Culver City civic nonprofit described by its own website as a public-private partnership bringing together business, government, educational, philanthropic and community leaders. I…
Hackman Capital Partners
VerdeXchange
VerdeXchange convenes public, private, nonprofit, investor and policy participants around infrastructure, sustainability, housing, development, transportation and related regional …
Wende Museum
Culver City museum and nonprofit led by founder and executive director Justinian Jampol. City records document a long-term public-private campus relationship at Culver Boulevard, i…
Brent Daniel Iloulian
Justinian Jampol
Founder and Executive Director of the Wende Museum and documented Culver City Forward board participant. City project records identify Jampol as the Wende Museum applicant for the …
Kelly Kent
Culver City Unified School District board member and recurring Culver City Forward officer. Culver City Forward identifies Kent as elected to the CCUSD Governing Board in November …
Michael Hackman
Thomas Aujero Small
Yolanda Gorman
Culver City strategic-planning facilitator and recurring Culver City Forward board leader. City records identify Dr. Yolanda Gorman as facilitator and preparer of the City's 2018-2…
Brent Daniel Iloulian — Hackman Capital Partners — Culver City Forward formation
Archived California State Bar material lists Hackman Capital Partners as Brent Daniel Iloulian's professional address and a Hackman-domain email. Culver City Forward corporate reco…
Michael Hackman — Culver City Forward governance
IRS-derived nonprofit filings identify Michael Hackman and Thomas Aujero Small as directors of Culver City Forward and Kelly Kent as secretary during the organization's filing hist…
Thomas Small — Michael Hackman — Culver City Forward governance and compensation, 2019–2021
IRS Form 990 records materially strengthen the documented Thomas Small–Michael Hackman relationship through Culver City Forward. Small received $300,865 in combined/reportable comp…
Thomas Small — Michael Hackman — Odis Jones contemporaneous 2026 overlap
The 2026 property-negotiation record sits against a longer documented Small-Hackman institutional history. IRS filings show Thomas Small and Michael Hackman serving together in Cul…
Thomas Small and Rick Cole — recurring urbanism forum network
Small and Cole are documented repeatedly in the same regional and international urbanism/planning circuit: programmed consecutively in the same May 2022 International Making Cities…
Thomas Small and Rick Cole — ULI Los Angeles Advisory Board overlap
Thomas Small and Rick Cole are documented as simultaneous At-Large members of the ULI Los Angeles Advisory Board during FY2024.
Thomas Small — Rick Cole recurring VerdeXchange network overlap
Public conference records document recurring professional-network overlap between Thomas Aujero Small and Rick Cole through VerdeXchange. They appeared together on a VX2022 urban-p…